The Doula Tool Kit

The Doula Tool Kit

Being an end-of-life death doula means opening up the gentle and compassionate places inside of you and sharing them with someone who is dying.
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Palliative Care Nurses continue to make a difference in our lives

Palliative Care Nurses continue to make a difference in our lives

Among the required classes in nursing programs are those that include instruction about the history of nursing. Florence Nightingale in the mid-1850s is a reference point for many in association with nursing as a profession. Yet a rich, and largely unknown, history exists in family, neighbors and friends caring for loved ones in their residences, people who tended to the ill and injured on battlefields, those who provided attentively for individuals sickened by plagues and epidemics, etc.
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Nominate Physicians for Outstanding End-of-Life Care

Nominate Physicians for Outstanding End-of-Life Care

Nominations are open for awards that recognize six physicians for providing outstanding care to patients nearing the end of life. The awards are given by The Hastings Center and the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation. Nomination deadline: January 31, 2024.
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A View into the Carters’ Hospice Experience

A View into the Carters’ Hospice Experience

This week marks six months that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been on hospice care, as well as the 96th birthday of his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who has dementia. Hospice leaders gathered in New York to publicly thank the Carters for their leadership. Learn more about that event via the following links: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) press release Event recording  AP photo coverage    A Washington Post report this week provided some details of the Carter family experience of hospice care: As Rosalynn Carter turns 96 on Friday and Jimmy Carter nears 99, the couple continues
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